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WIxCSSEE -NITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

CHARLES MILLS AND LOREN W. PENNEY, OF NEIVTON, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGNORS TO THE PETTEE MACHINE WVORKS, OF SAME PLACE.

CARDING -ENGINE.

SPECIFICATION forming part Of Letters Patent No. 623,094, dated April 11, 1899. Application filed January 22, 1896. Serial No. 57.61396. KNO odel-J T 0% whom, it may concern.-

Be it known that we, CHARLES MILLS, a subject of Victoria, Queen of Great Britain, and LOREN W. PENNEY, a citizen oftheUnited States, both residing at Newton, in the county of Mid dlesex and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Carding-Engines, of which the following is a full, clear, and-exact description, reference being had to the accompanying drawings, forming a part of this specification, in explaining its nature.

The invention belongs tothe type of carding-engines known as revolving-fiat carding-engines. Such machines have a main carding-cylinder which is covered with wire clothing, a superposed endless chain of wireclothed flats, and devices to cooperate with these instrumentalities in feeding the lap thereto and removing it therefrom, consisting of a lickerin roll, doffer, mote-knives, makeup pieces, and screens.

Such is the nature of the machine and the material which it Works upon, that the various parts above named must be very accurately made and finely adjusted to each other to obtain the best results, and any slight variations from the condition thus established seriously interfere with the successful operation of the machine. Variations in the desired relations of these parts may occur in set-ting up the machine and in use. In setting up the machine, from inability to accurately adjust the parts in relation to each other, and in use, from the reduction of the diameter of the main carding-cylinder by wear and by the grinding of the wire clothing of the carding-cylinder and the carding-flats. These variations,while relatively small, are of enough consequence to make a great difference in the successful operation of the machine, and it has therefore been found necessary to provide these various instrumentalities for cleansing the lap, for feeding it to the carding cylinder, and for removing it from the carding-cylinder with fine adjustments in relation to the carding-cylinder and in relation in some instances to each other, whereby a desired'relation or condition of the parts to each other may be ascertained 0 and arrived at, in the first instance, in the erecting and first adjustment of the maall the parts in respect to each other and to the carding-cylinder, and which groups having thus been set are thereafter made adjustable as a single organization or by a single ad justment in relation to the carding-cyli'nder that is, the parts are attached together and combined after their first adjustment to be simultaneously adjusted in relation to the carding-cylinder,thus insuring a continuance of the first and accurate setting of the parts in relation to each other and to the cardingcylinder in all the subsequent stages of the adjustments. The value of thisimprovement comes from the saving in time which is made, first, in the original setting up of the machine,

and, second, in making subsequent adjustments.

The invention further relates to various other improvements, all of which will hereinafter be fully described.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a view in left side elevation of a carding-engine containing the features of our invention. Fig. 2 is a view in plan of the carding-engine, the parts above the dotted line 2 2 of Fig. 1 being removed. Fig. 3 is a view, enlarged, principallyin side elevation, of the devices for adjusting the licker-in roll, the screen adjacent thereto, the mote-knives, make-up pieces, and knife plate, all in relation to the main cylinder. Fig. 4 is a view, enlarged,in vertical cross section through one end of the licker-in roll, its actuating-shaft, and bearing for the same. Fig. 5 is a view in vertical section, enlarged, upon the dotted line 5 5 of Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is a detail view of a part of the lickerin-scre'enadjusting mechanism,- to which reference is hereinafter made. Fig. (5 isa view in side elevation, enlarged, of devices for adjusting the fiat-stripping plate and makeup pieces upon 

